Do Radiologists Have Stage Fright? Tumor Staging and How We Can Add Value to the Care of Patients with Cancer

Christine M Glastonbury; Priya R Bhosale; Peter L Choyke; Carl J D'Orsi; Jeremy J Erasmus; Ritu R Gill; Suresh K Mukherji; David M Panicek; Lawrence H Schwartz; Rathan M Subramaniam; Daniel C Sullivan

doi:10.1148/radiol.2015151563

Do Radiologists Have Stage Fright? Tumor Staging and How We Can Add Value to the Care of Patients with Cancer

Radiology. 2016 Jan;278(1):11-2. doi: 10.1148/radiol.2015151563.

Affiliation

¹ From the Departments of Radiology of the University of California-San Francisco, 505 Parnassus Ave, San Francisco, CA 94143 (C.M.G.); University of Texas-MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Tex (P.R.B., J.J.E.); National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Md (P.L.C.); Emory University Hospital, Atlanta, Ga (C.J.D.); Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass (R.R.G.); Michigan State University, East Lansing, Mich (S.K.M.); Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (D.M.P.); Columbia University Medical Center, New York, NY (L.H.S.); Johns Hopkins Medical Institutions, Baltimore, Md (R.M.S.); and Duke University Medical Center, Durham, NC (D.C.S.).

Abstract

With current shifts in our health care system and a growing national discussion around the concept of the value of imaging, it is time for radiologists and nuclear medicine physicians to recognize and accept our role in the multidisciplinary oncology team.

MeSH terms

Diagnostic Imaging*
Humans
Neoplasm Staging / methods*
Neoplasms / pathology*